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Conference terri::cars_uk

Title:Cars in the UK
Notice:Please read new conference charter 1.70
Moderator:COMICS::SHELLEYELD
Created:Sun Mar 06 1994
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:2584
Total number of notes:63384

553.0. "Sunroofs: Are cars getting lower? " by AYOV18::WESTON (To predict the future, create it) Tue Apr 18 1989 15:17

Is there anyone else with the same problem as me :-)

I've been trying to update my car and find all that I have so far sat in
suffer from a lowered roof line and/or have a compulsory sunshine roof,
which lowers the front seat headroom even further. I just cannot sit in
modern cars without my head touching the roof.  I went for a test drive in
a Rover 800 series and had to open the sun roof to sit in the driver's
seat.  I thought that went away with my long departed Austin 7! 

If someone also has the same problem, what cars/alternatives were
acceptable?  Is it a common problem that the manufacturers should be made
aware of, or is it me, getting taller...?

John
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553.26News bulletin for human giraffes....SAC::DELANY_SFri Mar 22 1991 17:1418
    ......Related to note 553, but no-one's been there for 18 months, so I
    thought I'd add a new note so that at least some people saw it.....
    
    For the proportion of you, like me, who have headroom problems in most
    modern cars fitted with standard sunroofs (especially electric ones),
    take heart: I have discovered that several of the major car
    manufacturers (Peugeot and Rover for a fact) do what they call a
    "delete option" on their cars; i.e. if the car comes as standard with a
    sunroof, then you can order it without one if you wish.
    
    This goes against what I'd previously been told: that if the car came
    with some option as standard, then you couldn't delete that option.
    This puts a whole different complexion on what car I might order next
    time, because I'd far rather have air-con than a sunroof; most of my
    driving is on fast backroads or motorways where sunroofs are too noisy.
                                                                  
    
    Stephen
553.27KERNEL::SHELLEYRRS with the RSFri Mar 22 1991 17:428
    I made this point earlier in #1228.56 (which is the "giants" note, do we
    need another one ?)
    
    Stephen, I guess this is a follow on of your interest in the Rover in 
    #327.118.
    
    - Roy
    
553.28NEXT UNSEEN/EXCLUDE=(Diesel,BX,Ford,Sunroofs) ?CHEST::RUTTERRut-The-NutFri Mar 22 1991 18:2512
553.29Please be a little more tolerant of 'novices'UKCSSE::RDAVIESI can't tryp for notsFri Mar 22 1991 19:079
    Some of us 'expert' noters might need to be reminded that in the dim
    and distant past we too didn't know about SET SEEN!. It's not commonly
    known that this is a way to circumvent reading every one of the million
    previous notes so give people a break. 

    It's also difficult to reference a topic when the subject doesn't
    appear in the base title! (I've now added the word Sunroof in!)
    
    Richard
553.30Constructive help wins friends..SAC::DELANY_SMon Mar 25 1991 12:458
    Thank you, Richard.
    
    Your constructive help has taught me something new, and saved me wasting
    other people's precious time.                                    
    
    
    Best,
    SD
553.31KERNEL::SHELLEYRRS with the RSMon Jun 17 1991 20:2014
553.32All "go-faster"bits have a huge profit marginJANUS::BARKERJeremy Barker - T&N/CBN Diag. Eng. - Reading, UKTue Jun 18 1991 14:4415
553.33:-)YUPPY::FOXWPCORP$WP50DIR:ARROW-10.WPG;1Tue Jun 18 1991 16:313
    Re .31
    
    600 notes?  Err, let's see that's 600 x 5 = ?